Mechanochembio 2017 in Berlin

last update 2017-10-16

Here I put a few videos that are related to my talk and poster contribution at the
Multiscale
Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology 2017 conference in Berlin. The conference takes place in
the Harnack Haus, which I find, already after a couple of minutes
of being here, an absolutely amazing place to meet.

The tunnel, three proteins (red, green, blue) that contribute to its wall, and P-site tRNA (yellow). The exit
is on the top.

In the simulations, a stable peptide fold is formed that persists over entire simulation
(up to 12 microseconds). The CCA end of the tRNA is in white, the peptide in yellow and red,
methionine (darker blue) is labeled by the BOF
dye (lighter blue).

The video shows the dynamics of a poly-glycine peptide (in blue) in the ribosome
exit tunnel.
A constant pulling force is applied to the N-terminus of the peptide to facilitate its passage
through the tunnel.

A spherical cutout of the ribosome was simulated in Gromacs
using facilities in the
Leibniz Rechnenzentrum in Munich, Germany.
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